All men who would surpass the other animals should do their best not to pass through life silently like the beasts whom nature made prone, obedient to their bellies.
SALLUSTIt is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave.
More Sallust Quotes
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A good man prefers to suffer rather than overcome injustice with evil.
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Sovereignty is easily preserved by the very arts by which it was originally created. When, however, energy has given place to indifference, and temperance and justice to passion and arrogance, then as the morals change so changes fortune.
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A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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The glory of ancestors sheds a light around posterity; it allows neither good nor bad qualities to remain in obscurity.
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Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
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The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.
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But assuredly Fortune rules in all things; she raised to eminence or buries in oblivion everything from caprice rather than from well-regulated principle.
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Since we have received everything from the Gods, and it is right to pay the giver some tithe of his gifts, we pay such a tithe of possessions in votive offering, of bodies in gifts of (hair and) adornment, and of life in sacrifices.
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Get good counsel before you begin; and when you have decided, act promptly.
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Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others.
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Poor Britons, there is some good in them after all – they produced an oyster.
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Each man the architect of his own fate.
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Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
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Prosperity tries the souls even of the wise.
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As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
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